Automatic organ.



G. TUSSING.

AUTOMATIC ORGAN.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1912.

1,096,329. Patented May 12, 1914.

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CHRISTIAN TUSSING, OF TONAWANDA, NEW YORK.

AUTOMATIC ORGAN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN TUSSING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tonawanda, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Automatic Organs, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to automatic musical instruments of the type employing pipes, and the object is to provide a simple practical structure of this character that may be made to produce varied combinations of notes or different tunes at the will of the operator. It is thus peculiarly adapted for use on automobiles, power launches, and the like as a signal or alarm, but of course it is not necessarily restricted to such use.

An embodiment of the invention that has proven entirely satisfactory, is disclosed in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view through the instrument. Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view therethrough, with intermediate portions broken away. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a part of the same, illustrating the shifting mechanism. Fig. 4 is a detail cross sectional view therethrough. Fig. 5 is a detail View on an enlarged scale of a portion of the device shown in Fig. 3, but with the keeper illustrated in section. Fig. 6 is another detail of the structure. Fig. 7 is a plan view illustrating the preferable arrangement of the pipe or sound-producing members. Fig. 8 is a detail sectional view through one of the bearings for the music record member or cylinder. Fig. 9 is a detail view of the lower portion of the wind chest and valve casin broken away to illustrate the interior mec anism.

Similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In the embodiment disclosed, a suitable box or case 9 is employed, from one end of which projects a plurality of sound-producing members in the form of pipes 10 that receive air from a wind chest 11 located within the casing, the air to the individual pipes being controlled by valves arranged in a valve casin 12 and having stems l3 projecting therefi om. This feature of the mechanism will of course be well understood by those skilled in the art, and is believed to require no particular disclosure. The valves are individually operated by ac- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 26, 1912.

Patented May 12, 1914.

Serial No. 722,466.

tuating devices in the form of levers 14 pivoted, as illustrated at 15, to a supportingblock 16, and this block has arms 17 pivoted at 18 to the sides of the casing. The rear ends of the levers bear upon shoulder collars 19 fixed to the valve stems 13. Their opposite ends are provided with tapered lugs 20, normally disposed in the path of suitable projections 21, located upon the periphery of a musical record member in the form of a cylinder 22. It will be noted by reference to Fig. 2 that the levers are located some distance apart, and the spaces upon the cylinder 22 between these levers may also be occupied by suitably arranged projections. Therefore if the cylinder is shifted, different sets of projections may be brought into position to act upon the'levers to produce different combinations of notes or tunes.

Air is supplied to the wind chest 11 through a suitable pipe 23 connected with a pair of bellows 24, having inter-mediate movable walls 25, to which are attached pitmen 26. These pitmen are in turn connected to angularly disposed cranks 27 formed in a power shaft 28 that is suitably journaled at 29 in the casing. This shaft has a sprocket wheel 30, around which passes a sprocket chain 31 that also passes around a smaller sprocket wheel 32 secured to a countor-shaft 33, also journaled in the casing, preferably in suitable brackets 34. The counter-shaft 33 has a large belt wheel 35 engaged by a belt 36, which passes around a driving pulley 37 on the shaft 38 of a suitable electric motor 39. The current supplied to this motor may be from any suitable source, as for example, dry cells, and is under the convenient control of the operator by a switch (not shown). The power shaft 28 is also provided with a worm 40, with which meshes a worm wheel 41, mounted on the shaft 42 of the record cylinder. This shaft 42 is journaled in suitable bearings 43 and 44 mounted on the sides of the case. The bearing 43, as illustrated more particularly in Fig. 8, has an inwardly eX- tending sleeve-portion 45, through which the shaft 42 passes, and said shaft has an abutment flange 46 located thereon within the sleeve. Interposed between the flange and an opposing shoulder 47, is a coiled spring 48, which thus bears against the flange to urge the shaft 42 and the roller in one direction and against a bearing enlargenient 49 formed upon a lever 50. This lever is fulcrumed at its lower eno, as shown at 51, on the outside of the case, and is movable, not only in a direction longitudinally of the music roll, but also in a direction transversely thereof. The lever 50 is provided with a tooth 52, arranged to engage in any of a series of slots 53 formed in one side of a keeper 5%, fixed to the side of the case. It will thus be evident that by shifting the lever laterally, it can be disengaged from the slots, and then by moving it longitudinally of the cylinder, said cylinder can be shifted to bring any desired set of projections into position to act upon the keys. In thus shifting the cylinder, it will be obvious that some of the teeth are apt to strike against the sides of the projections 20 of the levers, and thus cause the same to be distorted or else the entire bank will be shifted. l Vhile some lateral play is allowed the support 16, it is yieldingly held in a predetermined position by a spring 55 connected thereto. Provision is, however, made for moving the support 16 with the levers upwardly, so that the projections 20 of said levers will be clear of the projections 21 when the music record is shifted. To this end, the support 16 has a pin 56 projecting through a slot 57 in the side of the case, and this pin rests upon an arm 58, pivoted at one end, and as shown at 59, to one side of the case, and having its other end resting in and on a keeper 60 carried by the lever 50. The arrangement is such that when the lever is shifted laterally to its unlocked position, the keeper riding beneath the arm 58 will act as a cam to raise such arm, thus carrying the pin 57, the support 16 and the levers upwardly and maintaining the projections 20 out of the path of the projections 21 as long as the lever is free. Consequently when the lever is moved to shift the record cylinder, there is no engagement between the two sets of projections, but as soon as the desired change has been made and the lever drops to its locked position, the levers will again be in operative relation to the record.

With this mechanism, whenever an alarm is to be sounded or tune played, the operator has merely to close the electric switch of the circuit in which the motor is placed, whereupon said motor will be thrown into operation, and upon the rotation of the power shaft, the bellows will be actuated, and the record cylinder rotated. As the projections on the latter engage the levers, these levers will be depressed in predetermined order, and combinations of musical notes will be emitted.

From the foregoing, it is thought that the construction, operation and many advantages of the herein described invention will be an parent to those skilled in the art, without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. The combination with a rotatable music record shiftable t'ansversely of its path of travel, of actuating devices operated thereby, sound-controlling elements actuated by said devices, a record-shifting element movable in different planes that extend in two directions, and .n'ieans engaged by the element for separating the record and actuating devices upon the movement of said element in one of said planes, the said element when moved in the other plane effecting the said transverse shifting of the record.

2. The combination with music record elements having a normal path of travel and being shiftable transversely of said path, of actuating devices operated thereby, soundcontrolling elements actuated by said devices, a lever that swings in two planes that are disposed at a considerable angle to each other, means that separates the actuating devices and record elements, engaged and operated by the lever when the same is moved in one plane, and other means engaged and operated by the lever when moved in the other plane to effect said transverse shifting of the record elements.

The combination with music record elements having a normal path of movement and being shiftable transversely of said path, of actuating devices operated thereby, sound-controlling elements actuated by said devices, a lever for transversely shifting the record elements, a holding device detachably engaged by the lever for normally securing said lever against shifting movement, and means engaged and operated by the lever upon its movement out of holding engagement with the holding device for automatically disengaging the actuating devices and record elements.

i. The combination with music record elements having a normal path of movement and being shiftable transversely of said path, of actuating devices operated thereby, sound-controlling elements actuated by said devices, a movable support for the actuating devices, a lever that moves in one direction and shifts the record elements on such movement, a keeper dctachably engaged by the lever for holding said lever against its said movement, said lever being movable transversely of the first described direction to disengage it from the keeper, and means engaged and actuated by the lever upon said transverse movement for moving the support to cause the actuating devices to be disengaged from the record elements.

5. The combination with a plurality of air-operated sound-producing members, of a wind chest connected thereto, valve mechanism controlling the passage of air to the members, a plurality of pivoted levers for operating the valves, a swinging support for the levers, a rotatable and longitudinally shiftable record cylinder for operating the levers, a lever movable in two directions and by its movement in one direction, shifting the cylinder longitudinally, and a swinging arm engaged with the lever support for swinging the latter and being engaged and operated by the lever upon the movement of the latter in another direction.

6. The combination with music-record elements having a normal path of movement and shiftable transversely of said path, of

devices operated thereby, sound-controlling elements operated by said devices, an element for effecting said shifting of the record, means for positively holding the element in different positions, said means being disengaged from said element on the movement of the element in a predetermined direction, and mechanism engaged and operated by said element on said disengaging movement for relatively moving the record elements and devices operated thereby to effect their disengagement.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHRI STIAN TUSSING.

Witnesses:

CHARLES J. KNoELL, KATHERINE SMITH.

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